Executive Conference

4th Annual Executive Conference:
Managing Risk to Achieve Strategy in the Post-Financial Crisis World

Organizations face difficult challenges in creating long-term value in an ever increasing real-time global marketplace. Leaders must utilize effective risk optimization and stakeholder accountability to create long-term value in this environment.

The Center for Business Excellence (CBE) at the Farmer School of Business was established to help organizations create long-term value by integrating these three drivers of risk optimization and stakeholder accountability.

April 14–15, 2009
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

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The recent global financial crisis presents executives from nearly every industry with unprecedented challenges for being sufficiently resilient to achieve strategic objectives. Recent business and operational failures suggest that many executives have been unable to meet these challenges effectively, as a result of poor integrity, leadership, and/or transparency.

The Center for Business Excellence (CBE) at the Farmer School of Business helps organizations create sustainable long-term value by integrating the Center's three core values of integrity, leadership, and transparency. The mission of this unique Center is to bring together professionals, academics, and students to exchange ideas and experiences for consistently applying integrity, leadership, and transparency to address threats to long-term sustainable value.

The Center's Executive Conference was established in 2006 to help executives address contemporary challenges for managing risks that threaten business objectives. The theme of the 2009 Executive Conference is managing risk to achieve strategy in the post-financial crisis world. The Conference presents professional, academics, and students from Miami's CBE-related graduate courses with a unique opportunity to actively discuss innovative and useful approaches for effectively managing the risks threatening strategies in the wake of the financial crisis.

All Conference activities, occurring on Tuesday (April 14, 2009) and Wednesday (April 15, 2009), will take place at Miami University’s Marcum Conference Center & Inn, which is located on North Patterson on the northeast side of campus in Oxford, Ohio. Joining the executive participants for the Wednesday Conference will be 33 Masters of Accountancy students who will have just completed a two-course sequence on governance, risk management, and reporting led by the CBE Co-Directors.

The registration fee for the 2009 Executive Conference on Governance, Risk Management, and Reporting is $600 per attendee. Register before March 1 for only $400 and receive a discount of $200 off of the normal registration fee. Registration is now open to receive the early registration discount. The registration fee covers all conference materials and food and beverages, including dinner on Tuesday evening and breakfast, lunch and snacks on Thursday. Registration for the 2009 Executive Conference will begin in early 2009.